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      ‘Felt like an earthquake’: passengers recall moment of terror on Latam flight as investigation launched

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Tuesday, 12 March - 02:09

    Latam Airlines flight LA800 was headed to Auckland from Sydney when plane’s ‘gauges just blanked out’ due to technical problem, pilot reportedly told passengers

    Cockpit voice and flight data recorders are being gathered as an investigation begins into a sudden mid-air drop on an Auckland-bound flight that left passengers bloodied, hospitalised dozens and “felt like an earthquake had just hit”.

    Latam Airlines flight LA800 departed Sydney at 11.35am on Monday with 263 passengers and nine flight and cabin crew headed for Auckland. About two-thirds of the way into the three-hour flight, the Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner – which was eight years old, according to flight tracking data – “experienced a strong shake”, the airline said.

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      British Museum’s Instagram flooded with calls to return Easter Island statue

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Sunday, 18 February - 12:00

    Chilean social media users target institution, forcing it at one point to close comments on all its posts

    The British Museum is tackling an influx of social media trolls from Chile, who have flooded the museum’s Instagram posts calling for the return of a moai statue, one of the stone monuments from Easter Island.

    The museum has two moai, which were taken from Rapa Nui (Easter Island) by British surveyors in 1868, and there have been longstanding demands for the British to return them to Rapa Nui, which is Chilean territory.

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      Storyville: The Eternal Memory review – a beautiful, heart-rending portrait of Alzheimer’s disease

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Tuesday, 13 February - 23:25 · 1 minute

    Family videos and self-shot footage provide an intimate, moving chronicle of the lives of former Chilean government minister Paulina Urrutia and her ex-journalist husband

    In the opening scene of Oscar-nominated Chilean director Maite Alberdi’s 90-minute documentary, Eternal Memory, we watch as a woman wakes up a sleeping man to begin a new day. She introduces herself to him – her name is Pauli. His name is Augusto. She is an actor and was a government minister, and they have been together for 20 years. They built the house they are living in together. He receives each piece of this news delightedly, as if a present is being slowly unwrapped for him.

    Pauli is Paulina Urrutia, former minister of the National Council of Culture and the Arts of Chile under post-Pinochet president Michelle Bachelet. Augusto is her husband, Augusto Góngora, part of the underground television news service Teleanàlisis, which chronicled abuses under the dictatorial regime. Augusto was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 2014 at the age of 62 and agreed to Alberdi’s film in 2018. It covers decline intimately over the next four years – perhaps more intimately than was ever envisaged, as the pandemic means that Pauli herself has to take over the filming while lockdown rules apply and neither family, friends nor Alberdi can visit. If so tight a focus makes viewing feel a little claustrophobic and airless at times, that is surely no more than the truth.

    Storyville: The Eternal Memory aired on BBC Four and is available on BBC iPlayer.

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      ‘We are in an era of megafires’: new tactics demanded as wildfires intensify across South America

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Tuesday, 13 February - 11:00

    Recent blazes in Chile and Argentina have highlighted the need for better environmental laws as the climate crisis deepens

    As South America endures unprecedented high temperatures, after the hottest January on record globally , it is still coming to terms with the devastating wildfires that have torn across the continent.

    Chile has been the most notably affected country, with at least 131 people dying in a fire that ripped through the coastal Valparaíso region in what has quickly become a national tragedy. Last year, at least 23 people died in summer wildfires in the country.

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      ‘It was total panic – with black smoke, falling fireballs and tongues of flame’: the terror of Chile’s wildfires

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Saturday, 10 February - 12:00

    A long drought followed by exceptional heat and wind brought deadly blazes that ripped with devastating speed through the coastal town of Viña del Mar

    On the afternoon of Friday 2 February, Danitza Hurtado was resting at home after work, unconcerned about the seasonal summer wildfires that had started in a nearby farm close to a nature reserve. By 6pm, she was frantically gathering belongings with her father and brother as fireballs rained down and a wall of black smoke crept up the hill towards their home in the Achupallas neighbourhood on the fringes of Viña del Mar, a coastal city of about 300,000 people.

    “The wind was hitting us, and trees were falling on top of the house,” says the 22-year-old. “It was terrible. In less than 10 minutes, we had to get as much as possible out of the house and flee.”

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      Former Chilean president Sebastián Piñera dies in helicopter crash

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Tuesday, 6 February - 20:42


    Minister says Piñera’s body recovered from scene of crash in southern town of Lago Ranco

    Chile’s former president Sebastián Piñera has died in a helicopter crash in the south of the country, the government has said.

    The interior minister, Carolina Tohá, confirmed the death of the 74-year-old, who held office from 2010 to 2014 and from 2018 to 2022.

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      World ‘not prepared’ for climate disasters after warmest ever January

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Tuesday, 6 February - 19:54

    Effect of El Niño phenomenon combined with human-driven global heating is causing increasing alarm among scientists

    From deadly floods in California to devastating fires in Chile, scientists warn the world is not prepared for the climate disasters that are hitting with increasing frequency as human-driven global heating continues to break records.

    The hottest year in history has been followed by the warmest ever January . Many regions in the northern hemisphere are sweltering in heatwaves that would be more normal in June . Marine scientists are shocked by the prolonged and intense heat at the surface of the oceans .

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      Chile wildfires death toll rises to 131

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Tuesday, 6 February - 18:28


    Fires in Valparaíso said to be country’s deadliest disaster since 2010 earthquake

    The death toll from wildfires that ravaged central Chile for several days has risen to 131, and more than 300 people remain missing as the blazes appear to be burning themselves out.

    The fires in the Valparaíso region are said to be Chile’s deadliest disaster since an earthquake in 2010. Officials have suggested that some of the fires could have been lit intentionally.

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      ‘Like being in hell’: Chile mourns as wildfire death toll reaches 112

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Monday, 5 February - 16:33

    Officials continue to battle blazes as hundreds remain missing and about 14,000 homes damaged

    Chile has begun two days of mourning for the 112 so far killed in the country’s deadliest wildfires in recent history, while authorities continued to battle blazes fanned by high temperatures and strong winds.

    Fires that broke out in central Chile late last week gathered momentum throughout the weekend, ravaging the coastal cities of Viña del Mar and Valparaiso . Hundreds of people remain missing and some 14,000 homes have been damaged.

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